View Full Version : Old edits revisited
After the mega editing sessions we've had over the last few days I've actually learned a few things and decided to go and look at some older pics.
One that has been bugging me was my shrimp pic.
Here is the original:
http://www.regthing.co.uk/images/caves/shrimp_orig.jpg
And my first edit:
http://www.regthing.co.uk/images/caves/shrimp.jpg
As Olddog pointed out at the time the anemone in the btm lh corner is blown out. Also looking at it now I've over cooked the red.
So I took a more gentle aproach this time. Checked each channel and brought the range of the histogram into line with the data:
http://www.regthing.co.uk/images/levels.jpg
Moving the black and white arrows to the edges of the data
You can now adjust the balance by moving the grey arrow to the left or right to tweak the colour. Do this for each channel (red, blue and green) then give do the same for the RGB channel.
You can also tweak the brightness by moving the black and white arrows in the Output levels range.
All of this Tom Foolery blew out the anemone again. But it looks not bad in the original. So using the history brush tool (this undoes any changes where the tool is applied leaving the rest of the layer as edited) I went back into each channel and erased the changes over the anemone.
A small tweak with brightness and contrast, a further bit of pulling back the blue channel and cloning out some back scatter brought this....
http://www.regthing.co.uk/images/caves/shrimp_2.jpg
The original pic straight out of the camera can be found here (2.6Mb) (http://www.regthing.co.uk/images/caves/P9290065.JPG) if you want a play. (Yes, Olddog, I am now shooting in RAW ;))
nice work Scott, I am going to play with some my old images too, to see if there are any real keepers!
i reckon you could crop that a bit and focus more on shrimpy!
:( I cannot shoot raw on my cheap point and shoot, but have got a macro set up built now, thanks to olddog's tips, will be testing it next time I am in the water...Next Tuesday??
nice work Scott, I am going to play with some my old images too, to see if there are any real keepers!
i reckon you could crop that a bit and focus more on shrimpy!
Naw, cropping it would put him(her) in the center of the pic and it would loose the rule of thirds (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rule_of_thirds) ;)
After the mega editing sessions we've had over the last few days I've actually learned a few things and decided to go and look at some older pics.
One that has been bugging me was my shrimp pic.
Here is the original:
http://www.regthing.co.uk/images/caves/shrimp_orig.jpg
As Olddog pointed out at the time the anemone in the btm lh corner is blown out. Also looking at it now I've over cooked the red.
So I took a more gentle aproach this time. Checked each channel and brought the range of the histogram into line with the data:
http://www.regthing.co.uk/images/levels.jpg
Moving the black and white arrows to the edges of the data
You can now adjust the balance by moving the grey arrow to the left or right to tweak the colour. Do this for each channel (red, blue and green) then give do the same for the RGB channel.
You can also tweak the brightness by moving the black and white arrows in the Output levels range.
All of this Tom Foolery blew out the anemone again. But it looks not bad in the original. So using the history brush tool (this undoes any changes where the tool is applied leaving the rest of the layer as edited) I went back into each channel and erased the changes over the anemone.
A small tweak with brightness and contrast, a further bit of pulling back the blue channel and cloning out some back scatter brought this....
http://www.regthing.co.uk/images/caves/shrimp_2.jpg
The original pic straight out of the camera can be found here (2.6Mb) (http://www.regthing.co.uk/images/caves/P9290065.JPG) if you want a play. (Yes, Olddog, I am now shooting in RAW ;))
Or alternatively, download photo, open HP image zone, press "auto adjust image" button, save file and upload.
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y3/BillBusRammer/Shrimpy.jpg
Do you guys have too much time on your hands? :confused:
i hear you peter... :D
by chance i just so happened to find photoshot on a disc in my collection, so installed it tonight...
its like flying the space shuttle... still, i did manage to find the smudge tool..:rolleyes:
Or alternatively, download photo, open HP image zone, press "auto adjust image" button, save file and upload.
Do you guys have too much time on your hands? :confused:
Philistine :p
Scott your editing skill is coming along beautifully. :cool: Version 3 is just far superior than you're original or the first editing attempt. My eye now leaps straight to the shrimp as you intended rather than being steered away by unwanted distractions.
Don’t discount the crop advice. The rule of thirds, like all rules in life is made to be broken. Don’t constrict your creativity by adherence to the compositional foundations. Life would be boring if we all did.
That’s a stunning sharp capture that will have many options concerning the use of negative space. It's true it would be wrong to cramp the shot with a text book centralisation, but experiment a bit you have loads of scope.
Impressed Olddog.
i hear you peter... :D
by chance i just so happened to find photoshot on a disc in my collection, so installed it tonight...
its like flying the space shuttle... still, i did manage to find the smudge tool..:rolleyes:
Stewart, Photoshop has a very steep learning curve. But it’s a very powerful tool.
It looks unworkable at first because it is designed as a top end editing system rather than an intuitive beginners program. But once you get started it’s a doddle. For U/W photography half the tools on it don’t need to be learned anyway. Take a free beginners tutorial on the net to get started then get a good book biased toward U/W photog editing.
dive granny
06-02-08, 22:20
It is really quite a pretty wee thing when you see it like that. And people always wonder what we see "In Scotland". Lovely:)
It is really quite a pretty wee thing when you see it like that. And people always wonder what we see "In Scotland". Lovely:)
It's my 30 second edit you're referring to isn't it - not the rubbish Scott did over 4 days with manual & training course! ;)
dive granny
06-02-08, 23:08
could be;) but I need to keep in Scott's good books as I am getting a lift from him, so they are both excellent:D
It's my 30 second edit you're referring to isn't it - not the rubbish Scott did over 4 days with manual & training course! ;)
Cheeky :)
No manual, honest, just playing and the odd point in the right direction. It actually took me longer to type out the post explaining the edit than it did to do the edit ;)
I've done more edits in the last 2 days just to wind you guys up than I did in the last year. I tried to say earlier I am to lazy for all this - no more please!
I've done more edits in the last 2 days just to wind you guys up than I did in the last year. I tried to say earlier I am to lazy for all this - no more please!
Oh there will be plenty more ;)
I've done more edits in the last 2 days just to wind you guys up than I did in the last year. I tried to say earlier I am to lazy for all this - no more please!
stick with it peter, you never know you could win a pint of beer if you spend perhaps a full minute editing a pic... :D
its got to be worth it...
Had to build a bed tonight, so not 'til tomorrow now.
alexmaclennan
08-02-08, 17:22
It's my 30 second edit you're referring to isn't it - not the rubbish Scott did over 4 days with manual & training course! ;)
I thought DG was referring to you :eek:
alex